Finally, I have finished my first 2 years of my studies, tentatively, I have one more year to go, only if I passed all my modules hahaha. At first when I step into this school of mine, I felt that results are very important to student, however, this kind of thoughts have literally destroy the main purpose of studying, which is learning things that interest us.
I fully aware the importance of CAPs and results that's because it can open up opportunities for us landing for our first job or even internship or even better, scholarship. Of course being able to get those opportunities are indeed beneficial to us especially to poor students or students who are seeking opportunities for landing on their dream job.
In school, I have friends who strive to achieve higher CAPs and also some friends who wants to graduate in a shorter period of time so that they can start to find jobs and earn income for their family or themselves. These are certainly no good or wrong answer to the path they choose, that's because life is not like exams, where there is only one absolute answer. In life, anything you do, anything you choose, if the decision derive from your inner heart, inner thoughts, then follow it, don't leave any regret behind.
Pressure, pressure and pressure are certainly unavoidable, especially in university where the competition is much hard then in Junior Collage or Polytechnic. With such competition, one of the main objective that students should aim for are slowly being blurred away. The main objective that has been blurred away is the purpose of studying, while I mean the true purpose of study.
The enjoyment of studying, the excitement of studying has been generally transform into a negative force which is call stress. Although having stress is certainly good as it help us to strive harder but the stress that students are currently having now isn't the stress to motivate them to learn things in a positive way but instead, a way to just score higher result.
I fully understand what it really meant to study in this semester, which is able to digest whatever we learn in a way which is fun and able to fully capture the core of what the module is teaching. Certainly, mistakes happen in every part and parcel of our life, it happen in exams as well. Thus, making mistake is unavoidable, however, understanding where we gone wrong is necessary so that we can learn from our mistake.
For student out there, if you happen to read this, I am very sorry for my language, since my English is not really that good. But what I hope you can gain from this is to understand the main purpose of studying and what you are going to achieve at the end of the day. Result is not everything, Certificate is also not everything, the most important thing for us is knowledge, the knowledge that we have interest in.
Thursday, May 9, 2013
Thursday, December 13, 2012
One Month Break
Finally, exams are over. This is no doubt a relieve for me since exams are one of the toughest fight that student need to face during their period of studies. This December will be a very busy December for me since I have tons of stuff line up for me to complete before ending my one month break of studies.
Well I do really hope that I can finish all the task that I aim to do before school start if not I will, I will..... Forget it, I will do it during school period. hahaha..
Module Preference Exercise, which is also known as MPE, is a system that my school adopt to allow student to choose their module before the actually bidding of modules, sounds weird isn't it?!?! It might be weird for most people, but that's how our school system work. However, I got all my modules that I wanted in MPE which also means that I won't have to bid for modules during the later part of December which is definitely a good news for me.
Well since now is holiday, I shall take a short break before continuing my work. Cya!
Well I do really hope that I can finish all the task that I aim to do before school start if not I will, I will..... Forget it, I will do it during school period. hahaha..
Module Preference Exercise, which is also known as MPE, is a system that my school adopt to allow student to choose their module before the actually bidding of modules, sounds weird isn't it?!?! It might be weird for most people, but that's how our school system work. However, I got all my modules that I wanted in MPE which also means that I won't have to bid for modules during the later part of December which is definitely a good news for me.
Well since now is holiday, I shall take a short break before continuing my work. Cya!
Friday, November 16, 2012
2nd Year Semester 1 in NUS
13 weeks has passed, time really flies and a lot of things happen during this semester, good things and bad things as well, although not much of a bad thing happen during this semester.
This semester was quite an interesting semester for me because due to the modules that I took this semester are very interesting.
The modules that I have took this semester are:
1) Computer networking CS2105
2) Information Management System IS3101
3) Service Science IS3220
4) Business Communication IS2101
5) Politics and Governance in Singapore GEK2003
For computer networking, the content is a bit dry and also there are programming assignment required to be done for this module, which is socket programming, where I do not have any experience in. Although it is tough, but I did not give up and tried my best to do every single assignment without much help from the others as this is a better way for me to learn rather than asking others for help. Unique right?!
Overall this module is quite interesting cause you get to know how each protocol works and understand the high level of computer networking.
For Information Management System, this is also rather interesting as I get to know in depth stuff of Information System in the real world. Although it is quite similar to one of the previous module that I have took, IS1105, but this is more in depth. We also have a group presentation which I think we did well in handling the topic that we were given which is Electronic Medical Record (EMR) in healthcare sector. It is quite fun as we did a skit in our presentation.
For Service Science, initially I took this module just because I left with no choice but to take this to satisfy my 5 modules per semester quota. The reason is because before I took this module, I have zero interest in service science field. On top of that, due to the high bidding score for this module, I only have a some group of friends taking this module and most of them had already formed their own group.
Then I thought that "Ahhhh I have to work with people I do not know, and 100% of this module comes from group presentation and idea/concept that the group come out with". After the first lecture, my thoughts that I have came out to be untrue. I formed myself a very best team that I had and we did pretty well together as we do not have unnecessary conflict or argument during the discussion. As I conclude that this team is one of the "dream team" that I ever had in NUS.
Well I hope that my future project group teammate will be as good as the team I had for service science. Hope so....
Business communication is one of the so called "English" module for me and of course whenever English is concern, I have big headache for it. Cause I am not strong in English language. However, I take this mod to brush up my presentation skills as I understand that one of my major weakness is presentation and this module act as a platform for me to improve my presentation skills which will benefit me for my future.
Last but not least is Politics and Governance in Singapore, is the GEM that I took for this semester. I took this module is because i have interest in it but have no knowledge in it. Get what I meant? Means I am Noob in this area lol. Taking this module has really help me understand a lot about politics and slightly in depth on the history to the present with regards to the politics issue. Although I understand that I will not score well in this module probably the so called last 20% of the bell curve, however, I have no regret since I get to learn more about Singapore politics which I believe that university student should know more about the politics matters in Singapore. The lecture and the tutorial are really interesting and there is debate as well for the tutorial where we will get into group and each week there will be an opposition and a proposition team to discuss on certain matter which put up by the lecturer to be discuss in the tutorial. This is a rather interesting concept as students has to do their own research and then do a debate on the topic given.
Overall this semester is really fun and interesting well hope the same thing applies to me as well for the next semester which I doubt so since there's Math module that I need to take. Oh well.... But before this semester ends, I still have 3 exams to go for. Well best of luck to everyone who is taking exams!
This semester was quite an interesting semester for me because due to the modules that I took this semester are very interesting.
The modules that I have took this semester are:
1) Computer networking CS2105
2) Information Management System IS3101
3) Service Science IS3220
4) Business Communication IS2101
5) Politics and Governance in Singapore GEK2003
For computer networking, the content is a bit dry and also there are programming assignment required to be done for this module, which is socket programming, where I do not have any experience in. Although it is tough, but I did not give up and tried my best to do every single assignment without much help from the others as this is a better way for me to learn rather than asking others for help. Unique right?!
Overall this module is quite interesting cause you get to know how each protocol works and understand the high level of computer networking.
For Information Management System, this is also rather interesting as I get to know in depth stuff of Information System in the real world. Although it is quite similar to one of the previous module that I have took, IS1105, but this is more in depth. We also have a group presentation which I think we did well in handling the topic that we were given which is Electronic Medical Record (EMR) in healthcare sector. It is quite fun as we did a skit in our presentation.
For Service Science, initially I took this module just because I left with no choice but to take this to satisfy my 5 modules per semester quota. The reason is because before I took this module, I have zero interest in service science field. On top of that, due to the high bidding score for this module, I only have a some group of friends taking this module and most of them had already formed their own group.
Then I thought that "Ahhhh I have to work with people I do not know, and 100% of this module comes from group presentation and idea/concept that the group come out with". After the first lecture, my thoughts that I have came out to be untrue. I formed myself a very best team that I had and we did pretty well together as we do not have unnecessary conflict or argument during the discussion. As I conclude that this team is one of the "dream team" that I ever had in NUS.
Well I hope that my future project group teammate will be as good as the team I had for service science. Hope so....
Business communication is one of the so called "English" module for me and of course whenever English is concern, I have big headache for it. Cause I am not strong in English language. However, I take this mod to brush up my presentation skills as I understand that one of my major weakness is presentation and this module act as a platform for me to improve my presentation skills which will benefit me for my future.
Last but not least is Politics and Governance in Singapore, is the GEM that I took for this semester. I took this module is because i have interest in it but have no knowledge in it. Get what I meant? Means I am Noob in this area lol. Taking this module has really help me understand a lot about politics and slightly in depth on the history to the present with regards to the politics issue. Although I understand that I will not score well in this module probably the so called last 20% of the bell curve, however, I have no regret since I get to learn more about Singapore politics which I believe that university student should know more about the politics matters in Singapore. The lecture and the tutorial are really interesting and there is debate as well for the tutorial where we will get into group and each week there will be an opposition and a proposition team to discuss on certain matter which put up by the lecturer to be discuss in the tutorial. This is a rather interesting concept as students has to do their own research and then do a debate on the topic given.
Overall this semester is really fun and interesting well hope the same thing applies to me as well for the next semester which I doubt so since there's Math module that I need to take. Oh well.... But before this semester ends, I still have 3 exams to go for. Well best of luck to everyone who is taking exams!
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